Social Learning and Sustainability (GELENA)

Analysis, practical testing und theoretical conceptualisation of participatory learning processes in science, organisations and product development in the case of climate change.
Period: May 2002 - May 2007
Supported by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bonn
Cooperation Partners: Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften; Kirstin Wulf (bis 8/04)

Involved IÖW employees: Dr. Esther Hoffmann (Project leader IÖW), Maria Hage, Dr. Wilfried Konrad, Claudia Nikschtat, Barbara Thierfelder, Karin Vogelpohl, Kirstin Wulff

Description

GELENA is an interdisciplinary group of young scientists within the socio-ecological research initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The group members are affilated either with the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, or the Institute for Ecological Econmy Research in Berlin.
The GELENA project examines participatory learning processes in product development, organisational learning, and academia.
Work on this complex issue is being conducted within seven interconnected modules.

You can find more information about GELENA on www.gelena.net

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Publication of the project:

Hoffmann, Esther (2012)
User Integration in Sustainable Product Development
Organisational Learning through Boundary-spanning Processes
Greenleaf, Sheffield
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Hoffmann, Esther; Konrad, Wilfried; Vogelpohl, Karin; Beschorner, Thomas (2007)
Konsument/innen- und Unternehmenslernen durch Nutzer/innenintegration in die Produktentwicklung
Materialien der wissenschaftlichen Begleitforschung des INNOCOPE-Verfahrens zur kooperativen Entwicklung eines Pedelec
Schriftenreihe des IÖW 184/07, Berlin
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Hoffmann, Esther; Siebenhüner, Bernd; Beschorner, Thomas; Arnold, Marlen; Behrens, Torsten; Barth, Volker; Vogelpohl, Karin (Hrsg.) (2007)
Social learning and sustainability
Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg
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research group GELENA (2007)
INNOCOPE guidelines. GELENA – Social Learning and Sustainability
Berlin
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Forschungsgruppe GELENA (Hrsg.) (2006)
Unternehmen: Teilhabe an einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft
Oldenburg/Berlin
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Beschorner, Thomas; Behrens, Torsten; Hoffmann, Esther; Lindenthal, Alexandra; Hage, Maria; Thierfelder, Barbara; Siebenhüner, Bernd (2005)
Institutionalisation of sustainability
Metropolis, Marburg
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Hage, Maria; Beschorner, Thomas; Kuhn, Judith (2004)
Nachhaltigkeit im Bedürfnisfeld Information & Kommunikation: Ergebnisse einer Expertenbefragung
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg
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Hoffmann, Esther; Thierfelder, Barbara; Kuhn, Judith; Barth, Volker (2004)
Nachhaltigkeit im Bedürfnisfeld Bauen & Wohnen: Ergebnisse einer Expertenbefragung
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg
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Siebenhüner, Bernd; Beschorner, Thomas; Hoffmann, Esther (2002)
Social learning and sustainability (GELENA)
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg
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Topic: Sustainable Corporate Governance, Climate and Energy, Participation and Communication
Research field: Corporate Environmental Management, Ecological Product Policy

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